Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yalemen turned against Harvardmen. Vanderbilts against Harrimans, horsemen against non-horsemen. Manhasset against Sagamore Hill in the ist Congressional District of New York last week. Even the several hundred thousand plain people inhabiting Long Island were aware that an unusual contest was being waged between curly-headed, soft-eyed Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny"') Whitney* and big. bluff Robert Low Bacon for the latter's seat in Congress. The opponents handled their campaigns with kid rather than loaded gloves, but each bestirred himself energetically. Democrat Whitney, his beauteous second wife, three station wagons, a touring car and a four-piece band proceeded...
...professor at Duke University fell into conversation with a new student named Cornelius McGillicuddy...
...late Albert Merritt Billings (Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co., New York City's elevated railways, Memphis street railways. Missouri Pacific, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul) was his uncle. Cousin is Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, chairman of Union Carbide & Carbon. Another cousin was Dr. John Shaw Billings (1838-1913). soldier builder of libraries...
Scattered among the other delegates were Thomas Nelson Perkins (Boston & Maine), Redfield Proctor (Vermont Marble), Alfred P. Sloan Jr. (General Motors), Cornelius Francis Kelley (Anaconda Copper), Myron C. Taylor (U. S. Steel). William Hartman Woodin (American Car & Foundry), William Wallace Atterbury (Pennsylvania R. R.), Arthur Colbraith Dorrance (Campbell Soup), Irénée du Pont (explosives), George Horace Lorimer (Satevepost), Wilfred Washington Fry (N. W. Ayer & Son), J. Howard Pew (Sun Oil), Howard Heinz (pickles), William Cooper Procter (Ivory soap), George Mathew Verity (American Rolling Mill), Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (tires), Paul Weeks Litchfield (Goodyear), James Dinsmore Tew (Goodrich), Charles...
Divorced, Josephine Armstrong Gwynne, onetime Patou model, grandniece of Confederate President Jefferson Davis: and Erskine Gwynne, socialite U. S. expatriate, editor of the French review Bonlevardier, grandnephew of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt; in Paris...